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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

Benjamin Carson

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn’t something most of us can afford to do.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Allowing Fear Peril
I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Care Numbers Thinking
It doesn’t matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It’s never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Cities Excuse People
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
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Life Neurosurgeons Way
So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
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Accepting Excus People
Right now, the United States of America is the patient. And the patient is in critical condition and will not be cured by political correctness and will not be cured by timidity.
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Country Political United States
And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?
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Attempt Entire Make Population Relatively Veteran
God has given to every one of us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Now why would God give us such a complex organ system unless He expects us to use it?
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Cells God Inspirational
Nobody can hinder you from doing what you want, if that’s what you set your mind to. You can always find a hook to hang excuses on, but they’re only excuses. You don’t have anyone to blame but yourself. Nobody else makes you fail.
BENJAMIN CARSON

Doing Excuse Hinder Hook Mind
You can’t allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, ‘Merry Christmas?’ Give me a break. If people don’t like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
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Christmas Mean People
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
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Freedom Speech War
We will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
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Dramatic Ending Fall Stope Wish Witness
Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
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Creativity Different Perspective
Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.
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Brain Thinking Way
Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Feelings Special Underestimate
It’s a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one’s life accordingly.
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People Risk Wise

Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents – that person is likely to excel.

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